The TV collector.
Yeah he's a fair way off at the moment but it's only practice times at the moment but I don't think he'll be there for the win at this race mind you stranger things have happened in motor racing.Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback
I agree about Stoner though, the new bike (GP9) seems to be to Stoners liking.
Fully qualified Sifter.
That's final qualifying. Stoner is still using the GP8 as far as I know...he's only tested the GP9 so far.
Ben Spies in 8th for his 1st GP!
The TV collector.
Oh ok, saw the words qualifiying practice and took that to mean practice times.
Never, never give in.
Yeah, GP9 (with a carbon fibre chassis) next year. (And he liked it!!)
Yeah. quite incredible really - as the Yanks don't ride in the wet. Not like the mad dogs and Englishmen (including the colonials)
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Geriatric hoon
I thought those qualifying times looked a bit odd. They were set in pissing rain.
Toseland crashed which is why he's so far down the order.
http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2008/S...ifying+session
Big things were expected of Toseland at Donnington. He has impressed a lot of people in his first season on "proper" racing bikes, riding on a succession of tracks most of which he had never seen before. Donnington would have been his first outing on home turf.
If it stays wet the new Honda engine won't be able to use the extra couple of thousand revs to full advantage.
Whatever, it should be interesting.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
Never, never give in.
More on Sete and Ducati:
No comment on Donnington - as some may not have seen the result. Interesting tho, eh Gaz?
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Enigma
That'll do me Bill , Assen will be good next Sat. Just pray for dry conditions. Gaz.More on Sete and Ducati:
No comment on Donnington - as some may not have seen the result. Interesting tho, eh Gaz?
now where's some dirt!
And look at skywatch: 6am sunday - Delayed MotoGP Assen. Good on ya sky. At least I can watch it online.
Enigma
Cheers K14, I was still shagged from the vmcc meet on the Sat and kept nodding off in the wee hours of Sun. 250's were great huh ? Gaz.
Fully qualified Sifter.
Forget the 250's mate...look out Rossi...here comes Stoner!
now where's some dirt!
Yeah 125 and 250 best race to watch by themselve again. But the motogp season just got a lot more interesting. Rossi won at assen last year but can he do it again? Then there is edwards and hayden who both could do ok there.
Enigma
Mrs Stoner must have promised him a back rub !!!!!!
If it hadn't fined up the little Spaniard would have been way back, bit of a let off for him. Must admit your man looked good. Gaz.
Hardcore Biker
Poor Melandri - Ist rule: `beat your team mate'. Tis a bad look when he wins and nearly laps you.
Fully qualified Sifter.
Who wouldn't like her to rub any part of ya!!!!!
What I'd love to see is for Stoner to eat away at Rossi's lead five points at a time so we can have a ding dong final couple of rounds!
Never, never give in.
Gibernau enjoys three day test session with Ducati at Mugello
The three-day test session at the Tuscan track of Mugello has concluded in a positive fashion for Sete Gibernau. The Spanish rider has clocked up a great deal of kilometres on track (around 800kms in total) first with the GP9, then with the GP8, finishing with a final exit on the GP9 for a back to back comparison.
In this, only his second test session after nearly two years away from the tracks, Gibernau has proved that he still has the speed and is also more than competent in providing the Ducati Corse engineers with useful feedback for the development of the Desmosedici.
Gibernau made many exits of 4 or 5 laps each and demonstrated a high level of physical fitness, in view of the difficult climatic conditions, with air temperatures of over 30C and track temperatures exceeding 50C. Despite this, the Spanish rider kept up an excellent pace, lapping consistently in a low 1m51.
Worth a mention too is his fastest lap, made on a race tyre (Sete didn't test qualifiers), of 1M 50.5 on board the GP8, just a few tenths off this year's race record (belonging to Casey Stoner).
"I want to thank not only Ducati but also all the guys that have supported me here", declared Sete Gibernau. "Some of them worked with me in 2006 and it was great to find ourselves together again. I've really enjoyed myself today and have had a completely new experience as a rider. The faster you go, the more obvious it becomes that this bike demands a real physical and mental effort, but when you manage to ride it well, the satisfaction is unique. I hope my work has been of use to Filippo, to help understand the differences between the GP8 and GP9. They are two machines with characteristics typical of Ducati, and the GP9, although new, has great potential."
"First of all I want to compliment Sete and thank him for the great job he has done here this week", stated Filippo Preziosi. "It is always a pleasure to work with an experienced rider like Sete and his feedback will undoubtedly help us. His comments are very similar to those made by Casey and Vittoriano and this confirms that we're proceeding in the right direction.
We will evaluate with him whether there can be other opportunities for him to work with us on track with our bikes. He has certainly demonstrated that he's still able to ride very fast. A special thanks also to the MotoGP team (present at the track were engineer Cristhian Pupulin and chief mechanic Davide Manfredi who work with Melandri, electronics engineer Gabriele Conti and mechanics Roberto Clerici, Andrea Brunetti and Giorgio Castur from Stoner's team, and Yoshio Shinke from the Development team) who have, as ever, shown willing by adding these three days of testing to their very busy race calendar.
I hope that this result will also spur on Marco and Toni. In the last months we have worked hard to improve the GP8 but I think I can now say that it is a good level and we hope that they too can get the most out of the machine in the coming races.
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